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Professor Ben Saul, who handled these cases for the refugees (called "authors" in the committee's parlance), said it was the largest complaint ever made against Australia to the UN human rights committee.

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Referring to some written notes, he delivered an update on the military campaign against ISIS (ISIL, in the President's parlance), saying, "This continues to be a difficult fight, but we are making significant progress".

(People who die, in cryonics parlance, are said to have been "de-animated").

"To sum it up in Cork parlance," he says.

From Taschen's "Cabinet of Natural Curiosities," the 20-pound behemoth from 2001 with its graphic red coral cover, to vintage titles like Osa Johnson's or anything from Slim Aarons, photographer of WASPs at play during the "Ice Storm" years, the coffee table book (or the illustrated book, to use the industry parlance) can say as much about a room's designer as its owner.

"Bud?" the man said, parlance for marijuana among the street dealers in the Downtown Eastside section of Vancouver.

As they sniffed a 2006 Ridge Geyserville zinfandel, or "took a sniffy-sniff" in Mr. Vaynerchuk's parlance, Ms. Robinson said she detected the aroma of violets.

In common philosophical parlance, a person is said to have "incorrigible" (or uncorrectable) access to his own mental states.

Snowboarders tend to be male and in their teens and 20s, and many favor fashion -- or "steez," in their parlance -- over function, said Marc Loebe, who owns the Boardroom, a snow and skate shop in Jackson, Wyo.

The front door to Candle 79 was built on a diagonal, which means it is slanted in Ms. Wendell's parlance, and she says that is no laughing matter.

Now, the Americans can fight their way into former al-Qaeda strongholds and hold them long enough to set up Sunni paramilitary guard forces of "concerned citizens", in military parlance.General Petraeus says that al-Qaeda no longer has any strongholds in Iraq.

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